Indeed i have seen similar from others and to be honest i went from a Vega 64 (5 year old gpu) to the rx 6800xt with a bump in performance but not the reasonably expected bump you should expect from a cutting edge gpu, added to that its not plugged into a potato, the rest of the system is equally high end.
I don't know what causes it mate apart from poor optimisation. And i have been struggling through it same as everyone and indeed yourself waiting for the the fix to come and like i say, they have nailed their flag to the mast now. These next few upgrades are performance and optimisation. Been happy to wait for it to come and would have been happy to wait longer. But they have said this is what it is, and just like all the youtubers. DSEA included im just out if they don't get this sorted. How many influential youtubers has ED lost at this point due to Odyssey? I mean all of the big ones thats a fact. SOme new guys coming in now who are decent, one of them i saw an Australian guy i think was using a bloody 3090! a unicorn GPU and a 32 core cpu... 30 frames in a settlement and he said his settings were on low in the vid. Like what
But thats fine. we have suffered through it. ANd we have been here a lont time supporting Fdev, cos fair credit where its due, they have always been slow but sdeady and they get there. Im just all out of patience at this point. They got me for the next 2 updates, and i know they dont care a jot about losing little ole me, im not an important youtuber or influencer etc etc. But i am the average gamer with a healthy credit card and i have paid my dues to Fdev
The very least they can do for me and everyone else is provide a game that actually runs on their very own recommended specifications and runs really well on a monster rig such as mine. It's just not that much to ask. I don't want new content! i dont want to run around on ships, i dont want them to do anything but let me play the game we already have and have it on a reasonable level of performance. And i bet you im not alone!